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Chapter 11
The Industrial Revolution There was a great
change at this time called the Industrial Revolution
There were new inventions which worked in factories that produced products more quickly
Capitalists made money off of these factories
Steam was used as power
The Industrial Revolution Women were used
in factories The Lowell Girls
worked for Francis Cabot Lowell, they lived in boarding houses under strict supervision After work
they attended lectures or went to the library
They gained education that they would not have got working on a family farm
The Industrial Revolution The most
important inventions were mass production and interchangeable parts.
Although life for the Lowell girls was good, this was not the general rule As time went on,
the conditions got worse
The Industrial Revolution Children worked to
help feed their families They worked in
textile mills; coal mines and steel factories as young as 7 years old. They were not
educated Factory conditions
were not good Poor lighting Little fresh air Many workers were
injured
The North Transformed Northern cities
began to grow because of Urbanization
Cities along the East coat became crowded because of immigrants arriving from Europe These growing
cities had problems such as filthy streets, bad sewage systems and citywide fires
The North Transformed Samuel F. B. Morse
invented the telegraph, which would send electrical signals over a wire
They used Morse code to send messages
The mechanical reaper was created to cut stalks of wheat faster then a human
Steamboats and railroads began to tie the country together because people could not transport themselves, raw materials, and manufactured goods to different places quickly
The North Transformed Immigrants entered
the United States during the 1840’s from Western Europe
In Ireland, there was a famine, in which a million people starved to death, one million people moved to the United States
Germans came because many had taken part of the revolutions, when the revolutions failed, they came to the US.
Many Americans were worried about foreigners, they were called nativists
The North Transformed African Americans in
the north faced discrimination
Although slavery had mostly ended in the North, they were not granted equal treatment They could not work in
factories or skilled trades
White newspaper showed African Americans as inferior
Freedom’s Journal was published by John B. Russwurm, to explain independence
The Plantation South In the south, slavery
became very important because of all of the cotton that was being grown.
The cotton gin increased the need of slaves
The south as called the Cotton Kingdom
People defended slavery People from the
south said that slavery was more humane than factory workers
The Plantation South Free African Americans
had laws against them, they could not go to school, vote, serve on juries or testify in court
Freedmen were often captured and sold into slavery
The laws against the slaves were called slave codes
Some slaves had skilled jobs, most did heavy farm labor they were often
whipped Families were broken
apart because they were sold
The Plantation South Although the import
of slavery was illegal by 1808, slaves still kept African customs, music and dances
Turner Revolt was led by Nat Turner and said that he had a vision to kill whites
He and other killed about 60
The Challenges of Growth Between 1792 and
1819, 8 states joined the Union
Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois and Alabama
Because travel was difficult, private companies began to build turnpikes.
In wet areas, corduroy roads were built
The Challenges of Growth a. Canals were built
to allow boats to reach more places
The Challenges of Growth In 1819, 11 states
were free states, 11 states were slave states
Missouri wanted to join as a slave state
The North opposed this because then votes in the Senate would not be even
The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to join as a slave state if Main joined as a Free state
This lead to future difficulties